Jacob Collamer

U. S. House of Representatives, Vermont, 1843-1849
U. S. Postmaster General, 1849-1850
U. S. Senator, Vermont, 1855-1865

Born: January 8, 1792, Troy, New York.

• Moved with his father to Burlingtorn, Vermont.
  
• Attended the common schools.
  
• University of Vermont, Burlington,Vermont, graduate, 1810.
  
• Served in the War of 1812.
  
• Studied law, was admitted to the bar, 1813.
  
• Practiced law in Woodstock, Vermont, 1813-1833.
  
• Member of the Vermont State House of Representatives, 1821-1822, 1827, and 1828.
  
• State's Attorney for Windsor County, Vermont, 1822-1824.
  
• Judge of the Vermont Superior Court, 1833-1842.
  
• Elected from Vermont as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1849.
  
• Appointed U. S. Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President Taylor, serving from March 7, 1849 - July 20, 1850.
  
• Again Judge of the Superior Court of Vermont, November 8, 1850 - October 3, 1854.
  
• Elected from Vermont, 1855, as a Republican to the U. S. Senate.
  
• Re-elected from Vermont, 1861, serving from March 4, 1855, until his death in 1865.

Died: November 9, 1865, Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont.
Buried: River Street Cemetery, Woodstock, Vermont.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)